My understanding has always been that below a certain speed, friction brakes use less energy than braking with the motor. What speed depends on the type of motor.
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Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable
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You're assuming he's doing nothing on the plane. He's probably busy reviewing engineering drawings on an Ipad while on the plane.
MTL_HABS1909
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Nah. I’ll take this any day over the corporate BS presentations from the legacy companies.
I don't recall them moving the front firewall forward, just minimizing the protrusion of the dash assembly in to the cabin. So I believe the total contained frontal volume forward of the firewall is roughly the same.
I expect the smaller frunk areas may be more due to the front drive units, larger radiators (discussed as being capable of 2X heat rejection), etc...
It is not how you speak. A message goes down well and gets a lot of traction, based on the credibility of the speaker and the content. Musk has a ton of credibility. He could stammer all he wants, and the media, interested public will hang to his every word.
eg.: "Physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation", will now be used by generations as a catchy phrase. His delivery was so poor on that, but there is no one now that could say that and catch the attention of the public like Musk.
EV insider just did a range test and found the opposite. Edmunds didn't test correctly.
At some point there's indeed not enough rotational momentum to generate energy in excess of that needed to excite the field windings necessary to operate the motors in regen mode. Hence the point at which previous Teslas "freewheeled" at the tail end of regen.
Applying the friction brakes at that point is a nice touch.
lafrisbee
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yeah well..OK OK YOU are right.
(And I appreciate that...though I love sitting as far forward as possible. I remember driving some of the old vans and feeling like you were in front of the vehicle. BUT then those vans were very unsafe in a head-on collision. So you are probably right. Tesla puts an emphasis on safety.)
I would be more patient if there were Supercharges planned but findus shows no SCs planned in the areas I travel most frequently, so any improvement is years away at best. Basically if you are traveling North<->South in the plains states, there are many gaps. East<->West is not so bad.
As a TSLA investor, I usually cringe during Elon’s product demonstrations. For all the reasons discussed at length in this forum.
But as an owner of multiple Tesla cars and an enthusiast of the company and Musk, I really enjoy seeing his quirkiness on display. It’s reflective of a very unique thinker and achiever.
This dueling perspective sometimes leaves me confused when the presentation is over, but when I reflect back I trust my car owner’s perspective, which is first hand, over my shareholder’s perspective which is trying to gauge how others are reacting.
Sancho, I tell myself, be more like Elon. If he watched someone else’s presentation he wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about how others might be reacting.
But as an owner of multiple Tesla cars and an enthusiast of the company and Musk, I really enjoy seeing his quirkiness on display. It’s reflective of a very unique thinker and achiever.
This dueling perspective sometimes leaves me confused when the presentation is over, but when I reflect back I trust my car owner’s perspective, which is first hand, over my shareholder’s perspective which is trying to gauge how others are reacting.
Sancho, I tell myself, be more like Elon. If he watched someone else’s presentation he wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about how others might be reacting.
Nope. I know that’s what he’s doing because it’s far more interesting and engaging for him. I’m the same personality type. Trouble is they’re both important tasks. Just one is more urgent but less interesting and the other is less urgent but far more interesting. That’s why someone has to hand it to him at near the last second and tell him to do it.
Does 25,000 refer to the number of Supercharger stations (locations) or individual Supercharger units?
Edmonds used limp mode in the Taycan. Tesla doesn't have a limp mode. Not apples to apples.
Pezpunk
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At what point are the customers going to be told what it is they're buying? This is getting ridiculous. Are they really that embarrassed to admit the car was 18650s?
That's a false dichotomy. There is no reason Tesla can't put out substantive, informative presentations that feature a host who has at least glanced at the slides prior to jumping on stage. He doesn't have to be Steve Ballmer, but i'd at least like to see him get out of "boom goes the dynamite" territory.
It uses 2170's identical to current production 3 and Y. That's official, I don't have the link at the moment.
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dhanson865
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The way I read the manual those are microphones in the seats, not speakers...
Has to be individual charging units. Supercharge.info show 2781 locations in the world/1068 locations in North America. (plus a few in construction or permitting).
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